Photo by Mikhail Nilov @ Pexels Visitors to a website expect invisibility from its caretakers: patches applied, certificates renewed and pixels painted, all without fuss. When it comes to uptime monitoring, Site‑quality‑monitoring.com , the cPanel bolt‑on powered by Koality, promises to shoulder that duty on behalf of harried webmasters. Too often, alas, it delivers the opposite: spurious outages, inflated server loads, and triggering of a trail of firewall alerts that would make even a cyber‑crime bureau blush. A bull in the server room Koality’s crawler prides itself on realism, fetching pages with a full headless Chrome browser rather than a polite HTTP probe. Its own documentation boasts that each page is “rendered… using a real browser (Chrome)” so that JavaScript‑heavy sites can be inspected like a human would view them. Noble in theory; ruinous in practice. A headless browser drags in fonts, images and third‑party scripts, pounding smal...
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